There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.
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There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.
The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.
And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.
The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.
If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.
With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
Sometimes God lets you be in a situation that only He can fix so that you can see that He is the One who fixes it. Rest. He's got it.
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!
No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.
God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away.
Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.
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